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Summary

Follow-up to #299 and #319.

I could still reproduce a DMA-BUF read failure on Arch Linux when PipeWire provided placeholder size metadata instead of the DMA-BUF allocation length.

Two different cases were observed:

  • Sway with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.8.2 reported maxsize = 0 and chunk_size = 9.
  • niri with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome reported maxsize = 1 and chunk_size = 1.

In both cases, the DMA-BUF file descriptor exposed a valid larger allocation, but checking the frame against the placeholder values caused it to be rejected before reaching the encoder.

The fix does not match compositor-specific values. It probes the DMA-BUF file descriptor for its allocation length and validates the frame offset and stride × height against the mapped allocation. The shared-memory path retains its existing size checks.

Original Sway reproduction:

[capture-linux] [osc-dmabuf] negotiated 1920x1080 uses_dmabuf=1 modifier=0x0
[capture-linux] [osc-dmabuf] maxsize=0, recovered 8388608 bytes via lseek
[osc-dmabuf] mmap fd=37 len=8388608 ok
...
[capture-linux] [osc-dmabuf-frame] maxsize=0 chunk_offset=0 chunk_size=9 stride=7680

Related issue

Refs #287

Type of change

  • Bug fix

Release impact

  • Patch

Desktop impact

  • Linux

Testing

  • Native helper tests: 58 passed, 1 ignored
  • Linux native helper built successfully
  • Biome and both TypeScript checks passed
  • Tested with Arch Linux, Sway 1.12, and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.8.2
  • Tested with Arch Linux, niri 26.04, and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 50.0
  • Produced a playable H.264 1920x1080 MP4

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved PipeWire frame validation to reject invalid, corrupted, oversized, or out-of-bounds frames.
    • Added safer handling for DMA-BUF buffers using their actual mapped sizes.
    • Prevented unnecessary cursor-metadata warnings when cursor data is not requested.
    • Added bounded diagnostic reporting for dropped invalid frames.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for invalid frame geometry, offsets, strides, buffer sizes, overflow cases, and flagged frames.

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Mamdasn requested a review from EtienneLescot as a code owner August 17, 2026 00:38
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Walkthrough

The PipeWire capture shim validates frame bounds against mapped DMA-BUF lengths or shared-memory sizes before copying frames. It adds bounded drop diagnostics and regression tests. Cursor metadata warnings now depend on the configured cursor mode.

Changes

Frame validation and safe reads

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame-bound validation core
electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.c, electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.h
The shim records DMA-BUF lengths and validates frame capacity, offsets, flags, geometry, stride, and frame size.
Validated frame reads and diagnostics
electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.c
osc_read_frame uses mapped DMA-BUF lengths or shared-memory allocation sizes. Invalid frames are dropped and reported with bounded diagnostics.
FFI coverage and regression tests
electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs
The Rust shim exposes the test validator and covers valid buffers, invalid metadata, overflow, stride errors, flags, and zero DMA-BUF maxsize.

Cursor metadata warning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cursor warning gating
electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs
The missing-cursor-metadata warning is emitted only when the configured cursor mode reports cursor data.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0e815

The DMA-BUF validation fix is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PipeWire
  participant osc_read_frame
  participant DMA_BUF_mapping
  participant osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid
  PipeWire->>osc_read_frame: provide buffer metadata
  osc_read_frame->>DMA_BUF_mapping: resolve DMA-BUF mapping
  DMA_BUF_mapping-->>osc_read_frame: return pointer and mapped length
  osc_read_frame->>osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid: validate offset, size, geometry, and stride
  osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid-->>osc_read_frame: return validation result
  osc_read_frame->>osc_read_frame: copy valid frame or report dropped frame
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electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs (1)

990-1088: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add assertion messages to the nine bounds cases.

This test packs nine frame_bounds_valid assertions with no messages. A failure reports only a line number, so the reader must re-derive which rule broke. The adjacent tests in this file already carry messages that name the rule.

Add a short message per case, for example "chunk_offset past the allocation must be rejected" and "shared memory must use maxsize, not mapped_len".

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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs` around lines 990 - 1088, The
test frame_bounds_reject_invalid_offsets_and_geometry_without_affecting_memfd
has nine assertions without diagnostic messages. Add a short, rule-specific
assertion message to each frame_bounds_valid call, covering valid DMA-BUF
bounds, invalid offsets, capped oversized chunks, shared-memory maxsize
behavior, overflow/geometry rejection, invalid stride, and invalid frame offset.
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Inline comments:
In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.c`:
- Around line 791-806: Move the SPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTED check out of the
DMA-BUF sentinel branch and perform it before selecting either size calculation
path, so every data type and maxsize value rejects corrupted chunks. Preserve
the existing sentinel and bounded-size calculations, and add coverage for
chunk_flags set with a non-zero maxsize.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs`:
- Around line 990-1088: The test
frame_bounds_reject_invalid_offsets_and_geometry_without_affecting_memfd has
nine assertions without diagnostic messages. Add a short, rule-specific
assertion message to each frame_bounds_valid call, covering valid DMA-BUF
bounds, invalid offsets, capped oversized chunks, shared-memory maxsize
behavior, overflow/geometry rejection, invalid stride, and invalid frame offset.
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Mamdasn force-pushed the fix/linux-dmabuf-frame-bounds branch from 89bcfc6 to 8a96d67 Compare August 17, 2026 11:53
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